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Old Jan 6, 2011, 9:58 pm
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dweick
 
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What's particularly appalling is what the OP thought about money orders and money laundering laws (he's deleted his posts since). He wouldn't know if a SAR was filed but one criteria for filing a SAR specifically has to do with large purchases of money orders:

When transactions are identified from a review of records of money orders or travelers checks that have been sold or processed, an issuer of money orders of traveler's checks shall be required to report a transaction or a pattern of transactions that involves or aggregates funds or other assets of at least $5000.

Now there is nothing particularly ominous about having a Suspicious Activity Report filed with the federal government but if you think you are flying under the radar buying lots of money orders from Walmart you are mistaken.
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